Web servers and proxies
NGINX has 2 supported release lines and Caddy has 1. NGINX 1.29 reached end of life on May 13, 2026. Both are open source: NGINX under BSD-2-Clause, Caddy under Apache-2.0.
Last checked against endoflife.date, deps.dev, OSV.dev and CISA KEV.
Every value links to its source. Where a row doesn’t apply to one of them, the cell says why.
| Compared on |  NGINX |  Caddy |
|---|---|---|
| Support and releases | ||
| Supported release lines | ||
| Latest release | ||
| Releases in the last 12 months | ||
| Security | ||
| Advisories published in the last 12 months | Not tracked as a package on OSV.dev | |
| OpenSSF Scorecard | ||
| Licence and hosting | ||
| Licence | ||
| How you run it | Self-hosted; NGINX Plus is the commercial edition | Self-hosted (a single binary) |
| Adoption | ||
| GitHub stars | ||
| NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|
| Supported release lines | |
| Latest release | |
| Releases in the last 12 months | |
| NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|
| Advisories published in the last 12 months | |
Not tracked as a package on OSV.dev | |
| OpenSSF Scorecard | |
| NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|
| Licence | |
| How you run it | |
Self-hosted; NGINX Plus is the commercial edition | Self-hosted (a single binary) |
| NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|
| GitHub stars | |
Read across for what matters to you. Each answer comes from the data above or the project’s licence and hosting options.
| If you need | NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|---|
| An open-source licence | Yes: BSD-2-Clause | Yes: Apache-2.0 |
| Someone else runs it for you | No: You run it yourself | No: You run it yourself |
| You can run it on your own servers | Yes: Yes, it’s software you install | Yes: Yes, it’s software you install |
| A long support window | No end dates published | Only the newest line (2); no end dates published |
| NGINX | Caddy |
|---|---|
| An open-source licence | |
Yes: BSD-2-Clause | Yes: Apache-2.0 |
| Someone else runs it for you | |
No: You run it yourself | No: You run it yourself |
| You can run it on your own servers | |
Yes: Yes, it’s software you install | Yes: Yes, it’s software you install |
| A long support window | |
No end dates published | Only the newest line (2); no end dates published |
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From StackPrism’s curated notes. Pricing isn’t covered here: it changes often, so check each vendor’s pricing page.
Both are web servers and reverse proxies. NGINX is configured by hand and has a long record in production; Caddy obtains and renews HTTPS certificates automatically and uses a shorter config file (the Caddyfile), which is the usual reason teams consider it.
Release lines and end-of-life dates come from endoflife.date, release counts from deps.dev’s publish dates, and advisories from OSV.dev, counted once per flaw even when it’s listed under several ids, and checked against CISA’s list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. Status and incident history come from each vendor’s public status feed; licences from each project’s licence file or the vendor’s licensing page, linked in the table.
The data refreshes every few hours and the time it was checked is shown above. There’s no pricing and no overall winner: which one fits depends on your constraints. To see how the versions you actually run hold up, check your repo.
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